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The Nativity
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The Nativity

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of leadpoint or soft black chalk

Dimensions

10-3/4 x 9 in. (27.3 x 22.9 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Clifford A. Furst Bequest, by exchange, and Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1995

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Bartolomé Estebán Murillo

1618–1682Spain

Son of Gaspar Esteban, a barber-surgeon, and María Pérez. He was orphaned at the age of ten and brought up by his maternal uncle, who placed him as an apprentice with his relative Juan del Castillo, a painter in the Italian manner. He adopted the surname of his maternal grandmother, Elvira Murillo, and rarely signed or used that of his father. Comment on works: History; Portraits; Religious